Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

The sports of children satisfy the child.

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.